by Sydney Smith on Jul 14, 2019
Column Critical of Transgender Children Misled Readers
The Australian Daily Telegraph misled readers with a column critical of children transitioning gender. The Sept. 2017 column, "What madness...
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by Sydney Smith on Jun 26, 2019
Australian TV must retrain, review processes
Australia's Channel Seven must review its processes and retrain staff after last year's program about Indigenous children. The Australian broadcasting...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 25, 2019
‘Nutty professor’ doesn’t mean mental illness, press council finds
Calling a university lecturer "the nutty professor" isn't akin to claiming the person has a mental illness, the Australian Press...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 14, 2019
News Corp paper didn’t disclose conflict of interest in sports reports
Australia's Sunday Mail had a conflict of interest when it published three front page stories about the fees sports teams...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 13, 2019
New Zealand Herald’s story on man’s suicide didn’t break press council guidelines
Despite quoting extensively from a suicide note, the New Zealand Herald's report on the death by suicide of a man...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 11, 2019
No, town isnt banning Winnie the Pooh, Herald Sun’s gender ban story wrong
The Australian Herald Sun claimed last year that a new local council was "auditing libraries, schools and kindergartens" to remove...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 10, 2019
Australian Defence Force didn’t ‘ban’ using him & her pronouns, Daily Telegraph wrong
The Australian Daily Telegraph wrongly reported that a new guidebook for the Australian Defence Force instructed soldiers not to use...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 06, 2019
Australian newspaper put gun crosshairs over politician, apologizes
Australian News Corp. newspaper the Sunshine Coast Daily published a picture of politician Annastacia Palaszczuk with gun crosshairs overlaid. The...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 02, 2019
Sydney Morning Herald claimed politician met neo-Nazi
The Sydney Morning Herald claimed politician Andrew Hastie, a Parliament member, met a "convicted neo-Nazi criminal" at a white South...
by Sydney Smith on Jun 01, 2019
Judge didn’t ‘slut shame’ & criticize defendant’s outfit
Australian news site News.com.au claimed a judge slut-shamed a defendant for her outfit earlier this year. But now, News.com.au has...